Sent from Tennessee, while he was serving in the 5th KY
Calvary during the Civil War. Believed to have been sent just before he
was captured. He was later released in a prisoner exchange. Also
signing the letter was his brother, Doctor Gaither Shepherd (not
an M.D., It was a family name. In Michael C. Watson's "An Adair
County, Kentucky History, Vol I", he erroneously lists " Dr. G.
Shepherd" as a doctor in Adair Co.)